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enPolitico's Stephanie Simon Twice Claims Arne Duncan Apologized for 'White Suburban Moms' Remark; No He Didn'thttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2013/11/19/politicos-simon-twice-claims-arne-duncan-apologized-clumsy-phrasing-whit
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I don&#39;t want to go overboard here, but most of the print establishment press deserves a bit of grudging credit in the Arne Duncan &quot;white suburban moms&quot; controvery.</p>
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Most of them aren&#39;t characterizing the gutless attempt by Barack Obama&#39;s education secretary to back away from his spiteful, condescending, bigoted comment Friday as an apology &mdash; because it wasn&#39;t. In a Monday post at the Department of Educations&#39;s <a href="http://www.ed.gov/blog/2013/11/high-standards-for-all-schools-and-students-everywhere/">Homeroom blog</a> (how courageous &mdash; not), Duncan only admitted that &quot;I used some clumsy phrasing that I regret,&quot; and that &quot;I singled out one group of parents when my aim was to say that we need to communicate better to all groups,&quot; while repeating many of the tired lies which have accompanied Common Core&#39;s imposition from its inception. There was no admission of wrongdoing, and nothing resembling an &quot;I&#39;m sorry.&quot; Predictably, Stephanie Simon at the Politico was among those who&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/secretary-education-arne-duncan-clumsy-phrasing-white-moms-remark-100017.html?hp=f2">considered</a>&nbsp;Duncan&#39;s dumbness an apology (links are in original; bolds are mine throughout this post):</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:52:55 +0000Tom Blumer64580 at http://newsbusters.orgAgenda Over Women's Health: LAT Continues Abortion Falsehoodshttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2008/01/18/agenda-over-womens-health-lat-continues-abortion-falsehoods
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the article, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-abort17jan17,1,6262857.story">"Abortions down 25% from peak"</a> (Thu. 1/17/08), the Los Angeles Times continues their practice of propagating abortion falsehoods. But their faulty reporting exceeds simple factual errors. Their falsehoods put women's lives in jeopardy.In a passage on the activities at pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, the author of the article, <a href="/people/stephanie-simon">Stephanie Simon</a> (more on her below), writes,<br /></p><blockquote>Some of the material given to women at such sessions [at these centers] is false or misleading -- for example, warnings that abortion raises the risk of breast cancer or causes post-traumatic stress disorder.</blockquote>
<p>First - The Times and Simon, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/The_Link.htm">despite the loads of evidence contradicting them</a>, continue to deny the numerous studies asserting the link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer ("ABC" = "abortion-breast cancer"). They are wrong to do this, and we have cited Simon and the paper on this very issue before (<a href="/node/12060">here</a> and <a href="/node/10907">here</a>). In addition, as recently as three months ago (October 2007), <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf">a major study conducted out of England</a> concluded that abortion is the "best predictor" for developing breast cancer.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:24:32 +0000Dave Pierre18202 at http://newsbusters.orgYet Another Slanted Abortion Story From the LAThttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2007/09/18/yet-another-slanted-abortion-story-lat
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-tiller17sep17,1,4721245.story">An article</a> in today's Los Angeles Times (Mon. 9/17/07) addressed criminal charges being filed in Kansas against the infamous late-term abortionist <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dr-tiller.com/">Dr. George Tiller</a>. According to the article, Tiller faces 19 counts of "aborting viable fetuses without first consulting an independent physician as required by state law." As often is the case, the Times is unable to control itself in presenting a misleading and biased story. And not surprisingly, the culprit in this journalistic craftiness is <a href="/people/stephanie-simon">Stephanie Simon</a>, whose work we've reported on in the past <a href="/blogs/dave-pierre/2007/09/10/lat-omits-dangers-deadly-abortion-pill-abortion">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="/blogs/dave-pierre/2007/07/31/when-antiabortion">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newsbusters.org/node/11573">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="/node/10907">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="/node/11335">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="/node/12966">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="/node/11631">here</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" href="/node/12060">here</a>. This time:</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:59:36 +0000Dave Pierre15776 at http://newsbusters.orgLAT Omits Dangers of Deadly Abortion Pill and Abortionhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2007/09/10/lat-omits-dangers-deadly-abortion-pill-abortion
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Los Angeles Times has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-abortion10sep10,1,1249929,print.story">an article</a> today (Mon. 9/10/07) about a new law in Missouri. It dictates that all of Missouri's abortion mills be properly stocked with medical equipment and have adequately wide doorways and hallways to handle emergencies. Abortionists are raising a stink because renovations to their facilities could be burdensomely costly. The law would also apply to clinics who solely issue the abortion pill.In reporting the story, the Times completely omits some important facts about the abortion pill. Since it was approved for use in the United States in 2000, Mifepristone (Mifeprex/RU-486/"the abortion pill") is "associated with the deaths of at least 8 women, 9 life-threatening incidents, 232 hospitalizations, 116 blood transfusions, and 88 cases of infection. There are more than 950 adverse event cases associated with RU-486 out of only 575,000 prescriptions, at most" (emphasis mine) (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/1233/2/">source</a>, US House of Representatives hearing, May/Oct. 2006).</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:28:14 +0000Dave Pierre15630 at http://newsbusters.orgWhen 'Anti-abortion' Isn't Anti-abortion: LAT Claims 'Striking Shift' by Demshttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/dave-pierre/2007/07/31/when-antiabortion
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A July 26, 2007, Los Angeles Times article by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newsbusters.org/node/11573">Stephanie Simon</a> (whose work we've addressed in the past <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/node/11573">here</a>, <a href="/node/10907">here</a>, <a href="/node/11335">here</a>, <a href="/node/12966">here</a>, <a href="/node/11631">here</a>, and <a href="/node/12060">here</a>) claims there's been a "striking shift" by Democrats on the issue of abortion.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:07:52 +0000Dave Pierre14776 at http://newsbusters.org